Floating building

The work on the Temple continues and now the building is starting to "float."  I have attached a picture that shows the Northeast corner of the building has now been dug out underneath and the building is resting on the steel I beams and you can see daylight and men are walking underneath it. It looks to me that the building is possibly10 feet off the ground and they continue to progress around the building both on the inside and the outside.  It is an interesting sight!  I would love to know the amount of soil that is being hauled away, the trunks are lined up down the street and they keep digging and hauling it away.

                              The Northeast corner of the building stands above the ground

January 8th 2013 Update

The last few days have been interesting to watch the work around the Temple as they have sured up the base of the Temple with steel I beams and it looks like the building is now resting on all the beams.  It looks as if in the near future they will start to excavate the old foundation and start to dig down to add a possible basement and new foundation.  They have also been burying large steel pylons around the parimeter of the building which will support the ground while they excavate and build underground structures such as parking.  I have attached a picture of the machine preparing to start to drive the pylon.  It is an interesting process to watch them drive the beems which stand about 2 stories tall.  When they hit something solid which I am assuming is rocks the machine viberates the beams until it starts moving again.  Our whole bulding shakes as they viberate the beem.  It is pretty amazing that it only takes maybe 5 to 10 minutes to drive them in.  In the picture you can see that there are walls going up to the east of the building on the beams and they have already hauled out a lot of dirt.